Hannah Geller
She/Her/Hers
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW Juris Doctor, JDShe/Her/Hers
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW Juris Doctor, JDHannah Geller is a psychotherapist based on the Upper West Side in New York City. She specializes in helping children, teens, and adults feel better and excel in school, work, and relationships. She believes in working with the whole person, accounting for individual neurology, family and community factors, and lifetime events in assessment and diagnosis. Her particular areas of therapeutic expertise include anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and learning difference. She is particularly interested in helping people navigate changes throughout the lifespan. Ms. Geller is trained in adult and child psychoanalysis, as well as CBT, DBT, ACT, and Gottman method therapies. Before becoming a psychotherapist, Ms. Geller worked as a corporate lawyer, and she has a particular interest in working with law students, lawyers, and their significant others.
Hannah Geller attended college at Yale University, law school at Columbia Law School, and NYU Silver School of Social Work. She trained in the psychiatric emergency program at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Hospital, working with adults, children, and families in crisis. She then completed postgraduate psychotherapy training at Metropolitan Institute for Psychoanalytic Therapy with a focus on children and adolescents, and worked in the Metropolitan Center for Mental Health as a psychotherapist. Ms. Geller then worked at Bellevue Hospital as a psychotherapist in the Outpatient Psychiatric Department, and continued on to adult and child psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center. Ms. Geller also interned in the Eating Disorder Research Unit at New York Presbyterian-Cornell Hospital, and completed advanced training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Gottman Method couples therapy.
Adolescent mental health - Working with adolescents, teenagers, and parents on social, academic, and/or emotional challenges throughout teenage years; addressing anxiety, family conflicts, peer relationships, school stress, transition to college, social media pressures, self-esteem, hopelessness about the future, emotional disregulation
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Child mental health - Specialized strategies for common childhood disorders including attention issues, attachment problems, behavioral disorders, learning disorders, autism spectrum diagnoses, and feeding or elimination issues.
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Parenting - Helping parents develop and implement strategies to address challenges that arise throughout childrearing; managing stress and increasing support
Couples counseling - Addressing relationship challenges and life transitions; strengthening communication and feelings of security, desire, connection, and love
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Bellevue Hospital, Psychotherapist, 2020 - Present
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical, Emergency Psychiatric Social Worker, Child Adolescent Specialist, 2018 - 2020
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical, Emergency Psychiatric Social Worker, 2018 - 2019
CASES, ACT team member, 2017 - 2018
Metropolitan Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, 2021
NYU, MSW, 2019
Columbia Law School, JD, 2015
Yale University, BA, 2007
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